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Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

The Department Store Versus the One Product Wonder?

December 5, 2008

Analysis of:London Stock Exchange loses trade to rivals | business.timesonline.co.uk

In many respects the market share drop in LSE's usual markets is alarming. At the same time, the beneficial impacts of MiFiD are actually being enjoyed by all exchanges - even those losing market share! However, the key problem for LSE remains its rather narrow product range, never minding its ongoing high cost basis compared to arriviste rivals.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Debt Worries Will Chill Brokerage Investors

December 2, 2008

Analysis of:IG’s value plummets by 27% after spread bets on bank shares cause £12m of bad debts in one month | business.timesonline.co.uk

Debt issues often follow major periods of market volatility and all brokers with activities in leveraged products have some degree of risk. With market confidence fragile in the wake of various risk management issues in the brokerage world this year, investors are going to remain very nervous about companies in this sector, particularly those with a principal risk of any kind.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Where MF Global Went, Will Man Follow?

November 17, 2008

Analysis of:Man Group stocks slump on shock performance | business.timesonline.co.uk

Man Group is suffering a lack of investor confidence that may not be unrelated to the aftermath of the somewhat disastrous first listed year of its MF Global subsidiary.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Hardly Surprising...

November 17, 2008

Analysis of:Bank of Ireland scraps dividend as profits fall | business.timesonline.co.uk

Bank of Ireland is in a mess and has been working hard to counteract a huge property bubble

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Risk Transfer Is A Wondrous Thing!

November 17, 2008

Analysis of:Derivatives:Giving Credit Where It is Due | www.economist.com

CDS trading is a very useful tool for risk transfer. However, the fundamental precept of building houses on weak foundations or muddy ground remains an issue. There is a future for the marketplace without needing to resort to bans or major restrictions. A sound (and ideally open) CCP regime is a pre-requisite for the future of the marketplace.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

The Perils of A Single Product Line

November 17, 2008

Analysis of:LSE shares dive after cancelling buyback | business.timesonline.co.uk

LSE has significant issues in dealing with competition Lack of a significant derivatives platform leaves the exchange with a relative lack of options.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Think Again Indeed!

July 29, 2008

Analysis of:Regulation of rating agencies is no panacea | www.ft.com

The idea of regulation for ratings agencies can appear a seductive panacea but it is riddled with dangerous implications...

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

A Processing Giant Assessing Its Futures Future in a World of Turmoil

April 4, 2008

Analysis of:MF Global considers financing options | www.reuters.com

MF Global is one of the key players in the global exchange traded derivatives (ETD) brokerage industry with the power to make and potentially, to break, markets, leading to some fascinating -and very significant- political dynamics within the industry. MF Global has been stung by recent activity on the rumour mill  as well as its own frank admission of a risk system failure that cost it dearly. MF Global has a massive opportunity but knows it must work hard to ensure its reputation is whiter than white - particularly as some of its acquisitions have included key elements of the tarnished Refco name etc.

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

Amazon Attempts a Monopolsts's Squeze

April 2, 2008

Analysis of:Amazon Tightens Noose on Print-On-Demand Publishers; Insists They Use Company's Own Service | www.washingtonpost.com

Amazon is attempting to own the book business by exercising control of the small fast growing independent end of the market. Ultimately having done much good for book buyers and helped publishers, Amazon is now in danger of squeezing the small houses they have helped encourage. Book publishing is in danger of having a very significant element of control levied by Amazon which will profit Messrs Bezos and Company in the short term but not in any way assist the development or innovation in the publishing business. In the long term Amazon will see their catalogue shrink. Their market share will decline and they will stifle the growth of the book publishing business. Make no mistake, this is a very very bad day for technological innovators, small businesses and publishing as an industry. For Amazon, it is a foolish plodding play of a monopolist which plainly has lost sight of the fact that treating suppliers with disdain will create a backlash. Finally expect higher book prices too!

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision

How Foolish We Were ...and Will be Once Again!

March 26, 2008

Analysis of:A Nation of Enrons | www.fool.com

Ultimately all markets go in cycles. The concept that property, to name but one sector, would forever go up, was a delusion of the Florida land grab of the 1920s and umpteen other times in history, not just the very recent past... Sadly in the modern age, the analysis remains that even with new-fangled tools to lose money by, the old fashioned methods of over-leverage and foolishly bullish beliefs are working just fine too.

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